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Tuesday,
December 9 at 7pm
Reelblack
White
Lies, Black Sheep
dir.
James Spooner, US, 2007, DigiBeta, 84 mins, color
 AJ’s
real name is Ajamu Talib. His dislike for his African name is
the least of his problems, still it says a lot about him. Brooklyn
born and bred yet outcast by his peers, his only escape was
music. AJ found freedom in rock n roll.
Tight
clothes, straightened hair, popular with girls and partying
every night, he is fully entrenched, in the debaucherous New
York rock n roll scene. For once he feels like everyone else.
Well almost. He begins to find that his chosen community, the
white rock world, only seems to run smoothly for white rockers.
A series of events force him to recognize his friends both exotify
him and are in denial of his blackness. Black, but not “really”
black.
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